Ah Lin v. United States

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is a Chinese person, who has been ordered to be deported by a United States commissioner under the Chinese Exclusion Act (Comp. St. § 4315, et seq.), on the ground that he is unlawfully in the United States, and upon appeal to the District Court the order of deportation has been affirmed.

On the evening of Saturday, September 19, 1925, two Chinese inspectors, charged with the duty of enforcing the Chinese Ex-’ elusion Act, went with two police officers in plain clothes to the appellant’s laundry at 46 Astor street, Boston. The inspectors asked the appellant…